Today is Saturday, Sept. 25, the 269th day of 2004. There are 97 days left in the year. On this date in 1789, the first United States Congress adopts 12 amendments to the Constitution and sends them

Today is Saturday, Sept. 25, the 269th day of 2004. There are 97 days left in the year. On this date in 1789, the first United States Congress adopts 12 amendments to the Constitution and sends them to the states for ratification. (Ten of the amendments become the Bill of Rights.)
In 1690, one of the earliest American newspapers, Publick Occurrences, publishes its first -- and last -- edition in Boston. In 1775, American Revolutionary War hero Ethan Allen is captured by the British as he leads an attack on Montreal. In 1890, President Benjamin Harrison signs a measure establishing Sequoia National Park. In 1890, Wilford Woodruff, president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, issues a Manifesto formally renouncing the practice of polygamy. In 1904, a New York City police officer orders a female automobile passenger on Fifth Avenue to stop smoking a cigarette. (A male companion is arrested and later fined $2 for "abusing" the officer.) In 1957, with 300 U.S. Army troops standing guard, nine black children forced to withdraw from Central High School in Little Rock, Ark., because of unruly white crowds are escorted to class. In 1973, the three-man crew of the U.S. space laboratory Skylab 2 splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean after spending 59 days in orbit. In 1978, 144 people are killed when a Pacific Southwest Airlines Boeing 727 and a private plane collide over San Diego. In 1979, the musical "Evita" opens on Broadway. In 1981, Sandra Day O'Connor is sworn in as the first female justice on the Supreme Court.
September 25, 1979: General Motors will speed up the Chevrolet Monza and Pontiac Sunbird lines at the assembly division plant in Lordstown. The move will add 350 jobs, bringing total employment at the plant to about 9,900.
A 28-year-old South Side man is shot and seriously wounded by John D. Douthitt, 72, after the younger man struck Douthitt, threatened him with a hatchet and took money from him. As the robber was about to leave Douthitt's barber shop on W. Federal St., Douthitt grabbed a 25-caliber pistol from a hiding place and fired, hitting him in the chest and hand.
September 25, 1964: Barry Goldwater Jr. tells a cheering rally at Idora Park that his father will win the presidency with the support of voters who fear, as his father does, that Communists are taking over the world.
Safecrackers break into the Youngstown University cafeteria, peal open a small office safe and flee with $1,185.
A 47-year-old pedestrian who said he was walking the center traffic line of West Federal Street to avoid the "bright lights" is struck by an auto driven by an off-duty state highway patrolman. The man, who was carried 70 feet on the hood of the car, was treated at South Side Hospital.
September 25, 1954: Sixteen men are taken to Trumbull County jail after a raid on a barbut game at the Midway Restaurant on Hubbard-Youngstown Road by Sheriff T. Herbert Thomas and five deputies.
Mahoning Common Pleas Judge David G. Jenkins orders the removal of Atty. Fred J. Gough's large political signs from the old library building in Central Square. The Citizen Committee for Gough sought an injunction to restrain Park Superintendent Tom Pemberton from tearing down the sign, but Judge Jenkins ruled that the building is on city park property, giving Pemberton authority to enforce a prohibition against political signs in city parks.
September 25, 1929: After months of heavy speculation, New York Stock Exchange prices drop dramatically -- by $3 to $20 per share -- wiping out more than $1 billion in quoted values in a day.
Figures showing that 27 more personal injury suits were filed in Mahoning County courts in August 1929, compared to the same month a year earlier, bring new charges of "ambulance-chasing" against Youngstown lawyers.
Youngstown had just 16 deaths during the week ending Sept. 21, giving it the lowest mortality rate in the country.
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